the car wash fundraiser

ello everyone! it's me again bringing you coverage of the previous car wash fundraising event! we've been planning it for a long time already. for about two days. and together with help from students of the one academy, who designed and produced posters and sandwich boards advertising the event, we managed to wash about 30 cars over the span of three days! soo.. that's rm10 per car, we get rm5, they get rm5, minus a couple of bucks for the soap, sponges, etc. well that's an okay sum i guess. for such hard work.



sherleen told me to be there by 8 that monday morning. waking up at 7.30 to gloomy skies and a light drizzle, i had bad feelings about the whole enterprise. but you know, duty calls. and on the way pass the ldp toll, which was jammed as usual, i received a call from the friendly one academy correspondent asking me where i was and when i would be there and he cheerfully informed me that they've been there since 7.30.



i jovially replied i'd be there soon. but oh, the rest of the days were fine. apart from slight drizzles, which didn't do much to hamper customers with dirty cars, there were of course those excuses some gave when we asked if we could wash their car for rm10. some of them went, "i have an indonesian maid at home". i'm like, "dude i'm an indonesian student. so can i wash your car?".



others went, "oh i just washed my car". i wanted to remind them that lying is a sin, after noticing dust, leaves, and dried bird poop on their cars. i mean why don't you just tell me that you don't want your car to be washed? instead of saying you've washed it already? that's like telling a lottery ticket seller that you've just won the lottery and you don't need to buy anymore tickets.



all in all it was exhausting work as we had to borrow trolleys from the reluctant facilities people and ferry pails of soap and water into the carpark to wash staff cars as far as the side gate. it's hard to hold a carwash when the girls who are helping out refuse to dress more obscenely. even after the guys beg them to do so. for the sake of business of course.

Campus Trivia!

Did you know there's a red kancil parked in the campus parking almost everyday? It's near the side gate and has the number plate WET (some numbers). We washed it during carwash event, day one.